Industrial Strength Java [Paperback]

Matthew Brumbaugh (Author), Shirani Maheshwari (Author), Jon Wright (Author), Daniel Brookshier (Author), Ben Last (Author), Jim Mathis (Author), Luke Cassady-Dorion (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1997

This reference is for the experienced Java programmer and teaches advanced Java concepts. The CD-ROM includes the Java Developer's Kit and many code solutions. It covers version 1 for Windows, UNIX and Macintosh.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Industrial Strength Java provides in-depth coverage of Java and techniques that apply to the world of full-blown applications for the corporate environment. This book is a fast paced, mainstream, client/server application development guide for the hard-core programmer charged with the task of creating truly functional applications. - Learn advanced Java concepts for building real solutions beyond the basics of beginning Java

- Answers advanced design considerations, animation solutions, and client/server relationships with a solutions-oriented approach

- Propels the accomplished Java developer to the next level of programming

Product Details

• Paperback: 842 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562056344
• ISBN-13: 978-1562056346
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,700,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daniel Brookshier is a renaissance man with cross disciplines of humor and technology author, juggler, engineer, software developer, and an artist (mom has pictures on fridge). Daniel loves a good pun or a hard engineering or business problem. Daniel currently works at No Magic in Allen Texas where he is an Engineering Fellow. Daniel travels the world talking at technology conferences, as a keynote speaker, radio/tv/internet interviews, and book readings. Daniel helped to create the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) and works on other specifications at the OMG.

Why technology? Daniel has been a technologist from a very young age. Fascinated by computers, Daniel started withe the programming of a UNIVAC 1108 when he was 16. Graduating to the Apple, microprocessors, VAX, Cray and back now to Java and his beloved Apple MacBook. Daniel currently consults on Engineering, Enterprise Architecture and has clients from NASA to the DoD.

Why write Boys Books? First, they are humor. They are parodies of traditional science books for boys. The first book, Boys Book of Armageddon, is a book parading all the ways the world could end. The book covers doomsayers, marketing apocalypse, and even the best dog to own for the zombie apocalypse (a herding dog like an Australian Shepherd). Behind the humor is critical thinking and how to spot nonsense and a lot of nonsensical puns.

Daniel's next humor book is Boys Book of Pseudoscience. The next technology book will be Enterprise Architecture Modeling with UPDM.

You can reach the author directly at [e-mail]

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating....., July 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Industrial Strength Java (Paperback)

An industrial-strength table of contents! Inside - fails to deliver.

Heaps of missing code, typos. Some good information warrants the 2 stars.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Quick Buck Book doesn't deliver, February 25, 2000

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An irritated buyer (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Industrial Strength Java (Paperback)

I was extrememly disappointed with this book. It promised "Industrial Strength" advice but was a poorly written, confusing exposition of the author's inability to create an intelligent technical book. The book contained many typos and misleading references. The CD had to be cleaned before it was usable; and it did not contain all the code shown in the book. The book is clearly a hastily put together device with an eye-catching title that didn't deliver. It irks me to know the author probably made money. He should personally apologize to all his customers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE: Confusing even for an experienced programmer., March 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Industrial Strength Java (Paperback)

Despite my knowledge in C++ and experience in several programming languages, I could not quite understand the explanations of this book. This impression is enforced by the fact that I have read some Java books and the Javasoft on-line tutorial. The examples employed in the explanations are awfully rushed in (as the case of the Flying Pig in explanation about interface). This book appears that it has been written by rushed contributors. It lacks in consistency and has lots of spelling errors. The listings are so short and split across the text that I can hardly have picture of the overall text/discussion. Such a book may compromise the image of the publisher.